Recent Submissions

Editing Issue 05 of Iterations has been a pleasure, from the first submission, right after we posted the call, to the enthusiasm of the authors in reacting to the double blind peer reviews. The response to the call was the ...

The theme for my presidency Balance by Design, hinges on two very important initiatives that I am very passionate about. The first ‘Why Design’ aims to address the gender imbalance in the Irish Design Industry

This is a reflection on teaching practice, focusing on design process in a BA Honours in Design – Interior and Furniture, in Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT). An intrinsic case study approach (Stake 1995) was taken for ...

This article adopts discursive phenomenography as a viable qualitative approach
to identify the different conceptions that visual communication undergraduate
students have of design research. Phenomenographic method was ...

The emergence of experience design marks a progression from what design creates to the experiences it facilitates. While this progression activates familiar concepts from formal and interaction-based design disciplines, ...

Philips is a leading health technology company focused on improving people’s health by serving both professional and consumer markets. With a multinational workforce of approximately 69,000 employees, they touch billions ...

This article transcribes an interview with the Graphic Design collective Experimental Jetset from Amsterdam, Netherlands. The interview was responsively structured, with three famous quotes from revolutionary critical ...

Conceptual design is an emerging area of design research and practice which shares much in common with conceptual art. Both are driven by the idea that the concept or question behind the artefacts they produce is often ...

While public appreciation is vital to technological inventions, the ramifications of these inventions remain extremely difficult to predict. This paper presents an original design fiction methodology intended to encourage ...

It is now well documented that the world’s population is ageing and living longer. Thus, there is a growing emphasis on social inclusion and integration for this ageing demographic. Financial institutions implement ...

In my role as an Industrial Design Lecturer, I enable Design graduates to build the requisite skills, knowledge and competencies to start them on their professional Design journey. In recent years, graduates have been ...

Frank Long is a Director at Frontend.com, Europe’s leading User Experience design agency. After
working as an Industrial Designer for LG Electronics in the late 1990s, Frank joined Frontend in 1999
and helped navigate ...

On a desk in his studio, Erwin Springbrunn kept a picture of the Sagrada Família by
Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926), one of Spain’s most influential architects. It says much
about one of Ireland’s most important master gold and ...

This article is a brief reflection on the delivery and impact of POST, a new design festival which ran
from 17-20 August 2016 in Copenhagen, Denmark. POST was delivered by an international team –
including Irish curator ...

The nature of the delivery of education is changing. Traditional “chalk and talk”
methods of delivery, featuring hierarchical class structures where knowledge is handed
down to students from a teacher located at the front ...

his article considers the value of making long-term happiness a key priority in designing for the
home and how creative methods, art therapy techniques, in particular, can be fundamental in this
process. It presents ...

This paper proposes a method by which schools of architecture and design can engage with the
development of their surrounding contexts in a meaningful and practical way. This method will be
illustrated using a case study ...

“The world is in perpetual motion, and we must invent the things of tomorrow .... Act with audacity”
Madame Cliquot. As we progress through 2016, our IDI theme of “Design:Rising” matures - with our
commitment to elevating ...